Bella Block: Course shadow
| Episode in the Bella Block series | |||
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| Original title | Course shadow | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Production company |
Lens Film GmbH | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
| classification | Episode 14 ( list ) | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
April 19, 2003 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Thorsten Näter | ||
| script | Jochen Brunow | ||
| production | Michael Albers | ||
| music | Johannes Kobilke | ||
| camera | Joachim Hasse | ||
| cut | Julia von Frihling | ||
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Kurschatten is a German television film by Thorsten Näter from 2003. It is the 14th film in the ZDF crime film series Bella Block .
action
Bella Block is on her way to the North Sea for a cure. Unexpectedly, she meets her childhood sweetheart Henning Harmsen here. When Harmsen's nephew had a fatal accident in the neighboring boarding school a short time later, Bella Block immediately believed in murder. But the boarding school director sees it differently. Apparently the boy was in trouble with almost everyone and made one nonsense after the other. This is also confirmed by the riding instructor, who knew him as a talented but very undisciplined person. The Commissioner is now investigating on her own, as she cannot simply forget her job even on vacation. However, since the spa accommodation does not at all correspond to her usual schedule, she moves out there and into Harmsen's pension. Simon Abendroth, who sees his Bella in very intimate contact with another man, is disappointed.
Jens Harmsen lived with his uncle because his parents have no time for him and are traveling all over the world. After Bella's first investigations, the school was about a flag dispute on the occasion of a solstice celebration, which degenerated and took on National Socialist features. Jens rejected this behavior and not only distanced himself from these students, but actually messed with them. Bella Block speaks to the boarding school director about "his" Nazi problem. He weighs it down and thinks that he has to face such problems without sending the students away from school. Something like this can only be solved in conversation and with patience.
Bella Block is certain that the fall was brought about by Jen's classmates. According to Jen's girlfriend, the group, which supposedly means a lot of decency, honesty and camaraderie, voted to give him a lesson. To this end, two students were drawn anonymously and they couldn't say who they were either. A trail also leads to the riding stables, where Jens is said to have recently fallen in love with the wife of his riding instructor. However, Mette Reinders states that everything was just a small banter that stayed within the framework. In the meantime, classmates Riemann and Kollart reported to the police that they had led smoke into Harmsen's room in order to scare him. So they are sure that is why he jumped out the window. Bella Block all sounds too easy and she finds out that Karin Harmsen was with Hauke Reinders many years ago and the riding instructor is the victim's father, which he does not know. Whereas Jens had found that out and therefore repeatedly provoked Reinders. On the night of the crime, both had got into an argument on the boarding school grounds, as a result of which Reinders had knocked Jens down with a stone and then left him to himself.
background
The film was shot in Hamburg and premiered on April 19, 2003 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
criticism
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv judged: “Kurschatten” “belongs to the weakest films in the ZDF flagship series. An over-engineered crime scenario, a woodcut-like Saturday crime story in which the author and director are in charge. In view of a crude discourse about nationalistic young men, there is also no topic bonus. ”“ Torsten Näter adapts to the crude script, trims the whole thing a bit to North Sea westerns - cheap parallel montages and annoying music score included. Because of the march of great actors there are some charming details to be discovered in 'Kurschatten', but the disappointment remains! "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "A coherent and multi-layered story."
Web links
- Bella Block: Kurschatten in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Bella Block: Kurschatten at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Hoger, Habich, Manzel, Kowalski, Kupfer. Thorsten Näter's actors parade on tittelbach.tv, accessed on August 20, 2018.
- ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on August 20, 2018.
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